Organisers of the Amstel Gold Race introduced the go back of the scary Cauberg ascent to the overall kilometres of each the lads’s and girls’s races for 2025.
The climb will include 2km to move of a 256.5 kilometer males’s Amstel Gold Race course that can start in Maastricht. The route contains lots of the well-known Limburg climbs such because the Geulhemmerberg and Bemelerberg, with riders tackling the Cauberg 3 times. The ladies’s race will even get started in Maastricht and, as in 2024, race a 157.9-kilometer route together with 5 ascents of the Cauberg.
Race director Leo van Vliet relocated the end in 2013 from the summit of the Cauberg to a extra spacious location between Berg en Terblijt and Vilt.
In 2017, the organisation got rid of the Cauberg from the overall lap to open up alternatives for overdue assaults fairly than a extra conservative race the place riders stay up for the overall climb.
“The Cauberg of course has something magical,” Van Vliet stated within the announcement.
“With the type of riders nowadays that start their final many kilometers from the end and then also the climb of the Cauberg at only two kilometers from the end, we again expect a thrilling final. A final that the audience in Valkenburg and on the Cauberg is going to experience very closely.”
The total course has but to be published.
Amstel Gold Race 2025 climbs
